Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series -

When: Wednesday 19 February 2025

Time: 11am

Venue: IRR South seminar room 1.05 

Speaker: Dr Stephan Daetwyler (UT Southwestern, Dallas)

Host: Yi Feng

Easter Bush seminar series - Evaluating foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) impacts and control: a 50-year imposter syndrome nightmare

When: Wednesday 19 February 2025

Time: 13:30

Venue: Roslin Auditorium 

Speaker: Brian Perry, The Jenner Institute

Host: Lisa Boden

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series -

When: Friday 21 February 2025

Time: 11am

Venue: IRR South seminar room 1.05 

Speaker: Dr Andrew Greenhalgh (The University of Manchester)

Host: Laura McCulloch

Monday Seminar Series - The skin of a living cell: A mechanoresponsive fluid membrane

When: Monday 24 February 2025

Time: 12pm

Venue: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Prof Satyajit Mayor, University of Warwick

Host: Andrew Goryachev, ICB

Edinburgh Microbiology Forum

When: Tuesday 25 February 2025

Time: 

Venue:

Speaker: Dr Megan Bergkessel, University of Dundee

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 26 February 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Abhinay Ramaprasad, University of Glasgow

Host: Nisha Philip

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series -

When: Friday 28 February 2025

Time: 11am

Venue: IRR South seminar room 1.05 

Speaker: Dr Stacey Paiva (Senior Editor at Nature Chemistry)

Host: Marc Vendrell

Monday Seminar Series -

When: Monday 3 March 2025

Time: 12pm

Venue: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Dr Ines Drinnenberg, Institut Curie

Host: Bungo Akiyoshi, ICB

Monday Seminar Series -

When: Monday 10 March 2025

Time: 12pm

Venue: Online

Speaker: Prof Andrea Ballabio, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM)

Host: Giovanni Stracquadanio, IQB3

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series -

When: Tuesday 11 March 2025

Time: 11am

Venue: IRR South seminar room 1.05 

Speaker: Dr Filippo Del Bene (INSERM, Sorbonne University, Paris)

Host: Yi Feng

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar -

When: Wednesday 12 March 2025

Time: 2pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Dan Bradley (Trinity College Dublin)

Host: Paul Sharp

Monday Seminar Series -

When: Monday 17 March 2025

Time: 12pm

Venue: Online

Speaker: Prof Ohad Medalia, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich

Host: Bill Earnshaw, ICB

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series - Battling with the YAP/TAZ oncoproteins for targeted therapy of squamous cancers

When: Tuesday 18 March 2025

Time: 11am

Venue: IRR South seminar room 1.05 

Speaker: Dr Gernot Walko, (Queen Mary University of London)

Host: Carsten Hansen

Monday Seminar Series -

When: Monday 24 March 2025

Time: 12pm

Venue: Online

Speaker: Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Host: Julie Welburn, ICB

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar -

When: Wednesday 2 April 2025

Time: 2pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Uma Ramakrishnan (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)

Host: Katja Guschanski

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 16 April 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Andrew Stagg, Queen Mary University

Host: Tovah Shaw

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 23 April 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Peter Cook, University of Exeter

Host: Andrew MacDonald

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 30 April 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Rick Maizels, University of Glasgow

Host: Amy Buck

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 7 May2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Pierre Maillard, Queen Mary London

Host: Sara Macias 

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar -

When: Wednesday 22 May 2025

Time: 2pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Diego Cortez Quezada (UNAM, Mexico)

Host: Katja Guschanski

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 22 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Molly Ingersoll, Institut Pasteur

Host: Jenny Regan

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 28 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Susanne Kramer, University of Würzburg

Host: Achim Schnaufer

Edinburgh Immunology Group quarterly symposia

When: Thursday 17 June 2025

Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30pm

Venue: IRR South Seminar Room (1.05)

Speaker: